Joaquín Blaya Elected as the First Community Board Member for OpenMRS
During September and October 2010, the OpenMRS community nominated individuals to serve for and represent the community on the new, not-for-profit organization’s board of directors. From 29 November to 12 December 2010, an open election was conducted to elect one member from the group of nominees.
We are pleased to announce that Joaquín Blaya has been elected to serve the first, two-year term for the Community Board Member position on the board of directors.
Joaquín was born and currently lives in Chile. He received a Master of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) in the field of rehabilitation and robotics. He worked with Partners in Health (PIH) and received a PhD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
I met Joaquin at the 2010 Conference of the Open Source in Medical Computing organization in Latin America (IMeCA) held in Granada, Nicaragua. He's a natural born leader, very smart, energetic, and dedicated to building open source solutions. The OpenMRS community made a very good choice in electing Joaquin to the Community Board Member position. Congratulations to Joaquin! -- Roger A. Maduro
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